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1/ THREAD - HOW THE CCP'S ALLIES HAVE HANDLED/USED COVID-19
This thread is a survey of how some of CCP's closest allies have handled COVID-19. Some interesting circumstantial evidence can be gleaned from the responses, though they vary significantly depending on many factors.
This thread is a survey of how some of CCP's closest allies have handled COVID-19. Some interesting circumstantial evidence can be gleaned from the responses, though they vary significantly depending on many factors.
2/ First, of course, if you have a devious plan to shut down the world, the first person you tell is your best, oldest friend. Thus clued in, Kim Jong Un has reported near-zero COVID cases in North Korea, essentially treating NK as an extension of China.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-30/kim-jong-un-north-korea-no-coronavirus-cases-doubts-experts/12189200
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-30/kim-jong-un-north-korea-no-coronavirus-cases-doubts-experts/12189200
3/ Iran is another close ally of CCP that seems to have been in on the shutdown scam from the beginning. Iran played a big role in early COVID hysteria with tales of apocalypse and mass graves that seem illegitimate in hindsight. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/iran-coronavirus-outbreak-graves/
4/ Venezuela is another country whose regime has actively sown COVID hysteria and propaganda, but which took a different approach politically, using its few COVID cases primarily as a pretext to punish political opponents and shore up Maduro’s shaky rule. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/quarantine-threatens-deepen-venezuelan-coronavirus-crisis-12549982
5/ Pakistan is the most interesting. Imran Khan remains the only world leader to personally apologize to the poor for lockdowns, for which he deserves great credit. But in the same thread, he praises China, apparently so Xi would let him off the hook. https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/1253745632101228547
6/ South Korea doesn’t get much western coverage, but expert Gordon Chang has been vocal about this, believing Moon Jae-in is close to the CCP. SK was recently rocked by protests after questionable election results and increased COVID restrictions. https://twitter.com/GordonGChang/status/1300086007145132033
7/ This man needs no intro. Dan Andrews, whose staffer attended a CCP academy, whose advisor is in CCP’s United Front, and whose Belt & Road broker praised China’s lockdowns, put Melbourne on Level 4 lockdown and still defends his China financial deals. https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/daniel-andrews-hits-back-on-china-deals-20200827-p55pq9
8/ Carrie Lam, CCP's puppet in Hong Kong, used COVID as pretext to delay HK's elections for a full year, saying there were "no political considerations" in the decision—of course translating to "this is purely political and has nothing to do with health." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53563090
